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So Connor is out there. Kind of cool. Wonder if Slade knows about him.

So I'm guessing Thea is not going to handle poverty, her mom's death, her brother's lies and outing to her well and will end up as her daddy's apprentice, since it's confirmed he'll be back for the finale.

As soon as Moira confessed she knew about Ollie and they were really reconciled, I was counting the minutes until her gruesome demise.

So... Sarah is off to recruit some of her League of Assassins friends to help take down Slade and his army? They would be a threat to Ras and I can see him be willing to help her to shut that threat down and get his hands on the Mirakuru formula himself, maybe tweaking it to become this universe's Lazarus Pit.

For an episode that was promoted as being all about Roy, he was barely in it and it wasn't really Roy but The Incredible Roy SMASH!

Still, there were some good scenes here. I liked The Arrow getting help from a doctor, who helped him because of the good he did to help the hospital WAAAAAY back in the second episode of Season 2. Very Robin Hood. I also liked Moira calling Ollie on his latest "motorcycle accident" before finally letting him know that she knows. And the feels... all the feels over Sara leaving because she thinks Ollie deserves better than her. It was doubly painful because the opening scene with them discussing their relationship in bed reminded me so much of Mike Grell's Green Arrow run and the Ollie/Dinah relationship there.

I've proposed before that the best episodes this season have been the ones which had very little or no Laurel in them. After tonight's episode, I no longer believe that to be a coincidence.

The Roy arc was lame.This show makes me feel bad for Sebastian Blood. He's a crazy supervillain but he does seem to genuinely want to improve the lives of the people of the Glades. Then Moira runs against him just because the rich are afraid of his financial policies. He also gets demoted from the season's Big Bad to being henpecked by Deathstroke. Moira telling him she'll concede before changing her mind was just cruel.RIP Moira Queen. I'm sad that Slade's endgame was not just to shag her & send Oliver avideos of it. They would've been the best power couple.

Frankly I was sick of exponentially convoluted back story delivery device mama anyway - what was she the really important thing she was going to say next? Mal Mer was - going to have dinner with us tonight - the man in the grassy knoll - really good at cribbage - the one who ate the tarts - is still alive... oh wait they didn't know that did they? Okay. Is it wrong for me to want to stop with the family story and just bust some heads? Triple arrow shot was gloriously goofy. I'm kinda at the point where I'd like some villain of the week episodes to spice things up. I keep thinking fondly back to the Clock Guy episode. Or at least have Mal Mer and Slade fight. Other thought - that family goes through a lot of chauffeurs - seriously that's like the fifth one. And no one ever questions or investigates their deaths. Who would work for them at this point?

She's a Borg Queen, right? She'll regenerate. Hey, where's the mirakuru when you needs? Who want's a super powered mayor?

Keep smashing computer gear and where's the money to replace it? Felicity will have to get a job...seriously, who is she working for? Once the Queen money run outs her and Diggle will have to become private dicks in a spin-off.

Black Canary, hell of a time to emo on us, bitch. You did remember Slade is trying to kill you and Oliver and everyone he cares about? RIGHT?

She was justified in wanting to kill Roy, because:

a. Roy roid rage, no cure

b. Roy messed up Ollie's leg 2 episodes before the boss fight.

c. Roy smacked her bitch up

d. Roy sucks

These non-island flash backs aren't so good. Ollie's got a 7 year old kid out there...I think I'm gonna barf.

Episode 45 will be a remake of Walter Hill's Street of Fire...musical face off Deathstroke vs. Arrow!

@EvilMonkeyPope I defended Roy (and Colton Haines) for a while there, but there's no denying that his "rage face" is pretty bad and his overall ability to seem scary/crazy/intimidating is lacking. The sooner they cure Roy, the better. I can't take the character seriously anymore as he is.

@Gallen_Dugall Amusingly enough the same was said about the Luthor family's security guards in Smallville. They were the show's redshirts (i dislike using that terms, but it fits.) And the Queen mansion and the Luthor mansion are one in the same, IIRC. (exterior shots at Hatley Castle, which has been Xavier's mansion in two of the X-Men films).

@scockery@ComradeDread1 He has resources and money. Wouldn't be that hard to build his own dossier on Oliver including past associates and ladies who suddenly got two million dollar payouts from his family.

@starmanmatt@BumblebeeZ3Also, to be quite frank, I'd think it would interfere with his extracurricular activities so to speak. Either that or the beans would be spilled to the entire city as part of the standard political mud-raking/slinging. Unless Slade tells his puppet-boy specifically not to for some convoluted crazy reason.

Slade could know, but it's getting into Slade knows everything because he's just that damn good.

And remember, he didn't know Sara Lance survived until he saw her in person.

And if it were that easy, muckraking media reporters, blackmailing employees and friends/rivals (Malcom Merlyn) would find out about million dollar pay-offs and bastard grandchildren years before some one-eyed jerk does. And whose to say they didn't, there's always more flashbacks!